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12/6/2007 - OpenManage 5.3 Demos - Comments
Just finished getting my head around all the new features in OpenManage 5.3. Great to have a lab with plenty of machines to test. Didn't even get yelled at once for rebooting any of my teammate's servers !
I took some time with my testing to capture screenshows. They are almost ready to go, getting some feedback from the team and then have to get them posted on Dell.com. So as soon as they get posted, I'll update you here with the links.
The first demo shows Systems Build and Update utility laying down an OS image on a bare metal PowerEdge server. SBU has other great functionality for deploying multiple systems. In the coming weeks I'll have other demos around that capability.
The second demo shows how to use Content Manager to download server updates to a centralized location for use with the Server Update Utility (SUU) over a network drive to update PowerEdge systems.
The third demo shows IT Assistant and the new Online Repository feature to keep servers up to date with the latest firmware/bios/drivers from the Dell support site.
Now that I've got a dedicated ITA machine, I plan on getting all the lab machines into ITA. Of course the lab has grown from a few machines to several racks of equipment. We've got maybe 4 different active directory domains, at least 3 different network segments, various versions of all the OSes. So it will be a ton of fun trying to architect the solution around all this. Maybe similar to how your environment has grown over the years.
So if you have any ideas on how I can tackle this problem in an easy way, I'm all ears. Luckily we have a lab tech, so I can put a lot of things on his to-do list :-) .... let me know how you've tackled this problem, maybe we can come up with some ideas together. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Ohhhh, just don't expect to get a response tomorrow. I'm headed to Vegas for a long weekend !
Scott
I took some time with my testing to capture screenshows. They are almost ready to go, getting some feedback from the team and then have to get them posted on Dell.com. So as soon as they get posted, I'll update you here with the links.
The first demo shows Systems Build and Update utility laying down an OS image on a bare metal PowerEdge server. SBU has other great functionality for deploying multiple systems. In the coming weeks I'll have other demos around that capability.
The second demo shows how to use Content Manager to download server updates to a centralized location for use with the Server Update Utility (SUU) over a network drive to update PowerEdge systems.
The third demo shows IT Assistant and the new Online Repository feature to keep servers up to date with the latest firmware/bios/drivers from the Dell support site.
Now that I've got a dedicated ITA machine, I plan on getting all the lab machines into ITA. Of course the lab has grown from a few machines to several racks of equipment. We've got maybe 4 different active directory domains, at least 3 different network segments, various versions of all the OSes. So it will be a ton of fun trying to architect the solution around all this. Maybe similar to how your environment has grown over the years.
So if you have any ideas on how I can tackle this problem in an easy way, I'm all ears. Luckily we have a lab tech, so I can put a lot of things on his to-do list :-) .... let me know how you've tackled this problem, maybe we can come up with some ideas together. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Ohhhh, just don't expect to get a response tomorrow. I'm headed to Vegas for a long weekend !
Scott
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